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Job Search Plan

20% job search inspiration
20% peers who are also searching
60% people from companies of interest or hiring

Spend an hour engaging with peers and any employees at companies of interest.

3️⃣ Connection and Engagement Strategy

  • Send 40-50+ connection requests per week.
  • Arrange 5-10 connection calls per week at companies that are actively hiring or with peers in your target role.

🌟 Where I'd Like to Work:

  • BigCommerce -> 1 connection
  • Lambert Labs -> Python -> Emailed George
  • Code Institute
  • F5
  • Unum -> 1+ connect -> sent application for internship

🎯 Upwork - Freelance Contacts:

  • Darrach Barneveld -> Studied CI
  • Miller, K.
  • Griffin, S.

Companies Seeking Junior Devs:

  • Propylon
  • Rapid7

🌍 International Opportunities:

  • Pakistan:
    • Netsol
    • Systems Limited

🔍 Recruiters:

  • Alexander Pugachev
  • Dario Knapic
  • Cathy Wojnicki -> Direct Emailed
  • Dario Knapic -> Sound
  • Rose, M. -> Actually got me a job in Psych

🔧 Skills in Demand:

  • AWS / Azure - Deploy the app
  • Celery
  • Redis
  • RabbitMQ
  • Ansible
  • Chef
  • Puppet
  • Jenkins
  • Github Actions
  • Postman
  • C# / Java
  • Lambda
  • Schedule Q
  • CloudWatch
  • SQL Commands
  • Visual Studios
  • Unit Testing
  • Veracode
  • SonarQube
  • Open to Code Reviews
  • .Net

🙌 Attitude:

  • Show a willingness to learn and adapt to new environments.

📬 Messaged Contacts:

  • Adampurath, S -> R0
  • Adams, M -> R0
  • Adanza, K -> R0
  • Adeoye, O. O. S -> R0
  • Agrawal, T -> R0
  • Ahktar, W -> R0
  • Ahmed, F -> R0
  • Akhtar, A -> R0
  • Akinoso, T -> R0
  • Akkaya, F -> R0
  • Alberts, J -> R0
  • Ali, F -> R0
  • Ali, N -> R0
  • Amin, Ishaq -> R0
  • Amspacher, J -> R0
  • Andersen, E -> R0
  • Anderson, S -> R0
  • Aneke, M -> R0
  • Aref, M -> R0
  • Arif, U -> R0
  • Armasu, A -> R+ Recruiter
  • Armstrong, M -> R0
  • Badmus, O -> R0
  • Bains, K -> R0
  • Barari, K -> R0
  • Barden, S -> R0
  • Barling, C -> R0
  • Baskar, R. R. -> R0
  • Karmakar, S. B. -> R0
  • Bautista, M. A. -> R0

Additional Contacts:

  • Beale, A
  • Braga, V -> R0
  • Cahillane, S -> R0
  • Commins, G -> R+, R0 Met in person
  • Djellab, B
  • Dinu, G -> R0
  • Gooch, T -> R1
  • Hassen, A -> R0
  • Grimmer, J -> R0
  • Kakin A. A. -> R0
  • Harvey, F -> R0
  • Hughes, P
  • Isa, K
  • Lab, Raji's -> R0
  • Menton, L -> R1
  • Miller, A -> R2
  • Molnar, A -> R0
  • Rose, M -> R+ Recruiter, Got me Psych role
  • Sharma, A -> R0
  • Sumon, N -> R+
  • Shadab, H -> R0
  • Tot, M -> R0